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Welcome to a website where reason and humanity prevail...
Quote of the month - July
"Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what
your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe.
I am convinced that if you follow closely the natural light of your
spirit, you will see ... that all the religions in the world are only
human inventions and that everything your religion teaches you and
forces you to believe as supernatural and divine is at heart only
error, lie, illusion and trickery."*
Jean Meslier, French priest (1664-1729)
(Wikipedia (English))
(Wikipedia (French))
The Way Forward
So, you’ve come to the reluctant conclusion that you’re an atheist. The stories about God no longer make sense. The afterlife is an illusion. What You See is What You Get. Not very uplifting is it? Didn’t life feel better, more reassuring when you were a believer?
Eric Maisel's The Atheist's Way
New World Library (2009)
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Learn to reason
The ability to reason is humanity's greatest talent.
The more effectively we think, the more clearly we understand ourselves
and the world around us.
How to reason
Christianity is ...
... "the belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree"
One of many definitions of the Christian faith from
urbandictionary.com
Sibling rivalry in the Middle East
Religion has been the cause - or rationale - for war for at least a
thousand years. The current focus of hostilities is Israel-Palestine.
Jews and Arabs are ethnic, linguistic and cultural siblings with
more to unite than divide them. Only religion drives them apart.
Why not Hawaii?
We will all be atheists
As many as 20% of the human race may be unbelievers.
Two hundred years ago, fewer than 2% would have seriously considered the idea that the universe was God-free.
A natural state
Protect the children
Every adult has the right to believe in or worship the god or gods of their choosing.
Every child should have the right to be protected from religion until they are mature enough
to understand it.
Adults only
How did the koala get to Australia?
Fundamentalist and creationist Christians believe the Bible is literally true, but
many stories in it never occurred. One is the
story of the Flood. How many contradictions you can spot?
Noah's impossible Ark
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« Pesez bien les raisons qu’il y a de croire ou de ne pas croire, ce que votre religion vous enseigne, et vous oblige si absolument de croire. Je m’assure que si vous suivez bien les lumières naturelles de votre esprit, vous verrez au moins aussi bien, et aussi certainement que moi, que toutes les religions du monde ne sont que des inventions humaines, et que tout ce que votre religion vous enseigne, et vous oblige de croire, comme surnaturel et divin, n’est dans le fond qu’erreur, que mensonge, qu’illusion et imposture. »
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NEWS / ACTION
Stick it to them
Supporters of the Atheist Bus Campaign in London earlier this year can now display the same message in a window
sticker, that can be ordered from
Blue Apple Music. 75p goes to
the bus campaign for every sticker sold.
Opposing Sharia Law
The British Council ex-Muslims is a leading organisation in the international fight against
Sharia Law, a form of religious "justice" that is highly discriminatory against women. (By
privileging men Sharia also deprives them of the respect and joy that comes from seeing women as
equal partners.) A series of rallies across the UK against Sharia is planned for 21 November. More information
here.
Debaptise yourself
with a certificate downloadable from the
UK National Secular Society.
Part joke, part serious, the certificate is an opportunity for individuals to repudiate a faith into which they were forced at
an age when they were too young to understand what was happening.
Download the certificate and get more background information
here.
For advice on how to excommunicate yourself from the Roman Catholic Church, click
here.
And... are you an ex-Hindu / ex-Jew / ex-Muslim with a theological background?
If so, contact NSS to help them create similar certificates for these and other religions.
A false friend
Faith is the absence and denial of reason. Faith is guesswork. Faith is emotion grasping at straws. Faith tells us what we want to hear. Faith is not a window into truth and the world that surrounds us
but a mirror that turns inwards, reflecting only our own fears and longings.
Reason and faith
Do aliens know about the crucifixion?
The possible existence of intelligent species elsewhere
in the universe raises important theological questions.
Has God revealed himself to these alien beings?
And if so, how did he do so?
Jesus in space
Myth or morality?
Morality does not exist outside human experience.
The tides ebb and flow, the sun rises, rain falls, volcanoes erupt,
plants grow and are eaten by herbivores,
herbivores are eaten by carnivores and
the dead bodies of carnivores return to the earth
in one form or another to feed the next generation of plants.
True morality
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If God existed, he would...
admire the beauty of a universe that he did not create
recognize that eternity is meaningless
deny both heaven and hell
disown all men and women who speak in his name
denounce the harm caused by religious "morality"
help the human race to thrive without him
If God existed, he would be an atheist.
What is the difference between science and faith?
science is certain of nothing and requires proof of everything
faith is certain of everything and requires proof of nothing
Which do you trust?
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